The Ochlockonee River State Park camping trip was grand. I have a first revision (except for this pesky little bit I need to write set in 1704) done. It's actual fun to go through it all with a whole book perspective - with a wide, unobstructed view. Which segues quite neatly into Mobi Mats.
I don't think I've ever blogged/ranted about my aversion to these boardwalks they're building at State Parks. They get all this money, spend all this time, have good intentions, and then build "accessible" boardwalks with railings so high that I feel like a steer in a slaughter house chute or that I'm in some 1700's jail and should have a tin cup to bang against the wooden slats. I don't think you get to call it "accessible" if I can't use my binoculars, take a photo, or lean my elbows (or at least my chin) on the top, stare into the vista, and ponder the meaning of life.
Well, at Bald Point State Park, in addition to the mean jokes of boardwalks that other parks have, they have Mobi Mats. I found it stretched out over the sand. No one was around. I thought "what the heck, my phone has bars, and took off. I ended up at this lagoon. I pondered the meaning of life.
Here at home, online again, I looked up the Mobi Mat website. This technology is brought to us by Deschamps the "world leader in tactical mobility since 1860." Check out the promotional photos of tanks rolling over sand, helicopters landing in sand, troops disembarking in sand. Yikes. The park volunteer said that one strip of Mobi Mat cost $27,000.